The state of post-quantum cryptography at the end of 2024

Cloudflare Post-Quantum connection check

The recent hype about Google Willow inspired me to recheck what's happening in the world of post-quantum cryptography.

You probably already heard the alarming news - all of our encryption is becoming useless. The reality is not as tragic. What is true is that most asymmetric algorithms (those with public and …

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Switching from Docker to Podman

Many distributions have switched from Docker to other container engines. There were different reasons for it - licensing or design choices - but for years I ignored the trend. I thought: container engines are supposedly 99% compatible with Docker, after all they all claim to support OCI standard, but somehow I alway …

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Creating a photo gallery with Hugo and Mapael

Some time ago I switched from dynamic Content Management Systems such as Wordpress to Pelican, a static website generator. Now I wanted to generate a photo gallery. I used to have one years ago but it's no longer available. Of course I post to social media, but I wanted a …

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Running IBM Storage Scale on VMs

IBM Storage Scale (formerly Spectrum Scale, formerly GPFS) is a distributed file system often found in HPC clusters, Machine Learning platforms etc. It can scale up to an unimaginable size, it can provide higher throughput than any physical drive, it allows concurrent access from many nodes in the cluster. It …

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How I build this site

I use static website generator called Pelican to build all my websites, unless I have a good reason not to. Why? Since laziness is one of the virtues of a good programmer, I asked ChatGPT why a static website generator is better then a CMS. Here's a slightly edited answer …

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